One thing I miss about moving to Indy: Georgia Arms doesn't set up tables at the shows here.

If you're willing to drive a couple hours, they had a table set up at National Gun Day in Louisville last time I was there (I bought some 10mm from them). Have you been to the Indy 1500 yet? I could have sworn I saw them there too.

There are some people who cannot handle repeated recoil from the .38+P. Typically people with arthritis or small hands have trouble enduring the recoil. It is only exacerbated by small, lightweight guns used for carry.

The .32 H&R Magnum is a good match in an Airweight snubby. It provides better-than .380 ballistics in a very lightweight six-shooter with low recoil. It's noisy, but about on a par with the .38.

The .327 Federal Magnum is a whole new animal. Operating at or over 40,000 psi, it's a high pressure load that produces a bunch o' gee-whiz at the muzzle. Recoil is still fairly mild by all reports (using a 3-inch SP101). The cartridge puts out a 115g Gold Dot JHP at an honest 1330 fps from a 3-1/16" tube producing more horsepower than most 9mm rounds. The 100gr JSP American Eagle load runs a tad faster at 1400 fps and produces the same kind of ballistics.

So...
More energy than the .38 +P - Check
More energy than the 9mm - Check
Less recoil than a .38 Special - Check
Six round, not five in a small frame - Check
High-speed load from short barrels - Check
Reliable Gold Dot ammo available - Check

So far I have four boxes of the American Eagle 100 grain JSP (200 rounds total) and two boxes of the Speer 115 Gold Dots (40 rounds total) but no gun. My SP101 has been on backorder since the first week of March.

The .327 mag. will fire a 115gr. bullet at 1300 fps, that's identical to the 9mm ballistics that've proven to be excellent stoppers.

Most 9mm's top out at about 1300 fps in a four inch barrel while the .327 Mag 115gr is reported to be 1330 fps out of a 3-1/16" barrel (1380 fps/486 ft-lbs in a 4-inch).

The actual "power level" based on energy is closer to the .40 S&W round than 9mm or .38+P. If we can get more than two manufacturers (other than Ruger and Charter Arms) to chamber small wheelguns for the .327 Federal Magnum, it might actually become fairly common.

I recently bought an SP 101 3" in 32 H&R Magnum. My dealer was still able to get one from his Ruger distributor although on their website Ruger shows both the 3 and 4 inch as discontinued. First impressions have been very good. Accuracy is VG. Low recoil. I'm using Federal 85 and 95 grain loads. This is a very good kit gun and woods gun in my opinion and would also serve in the capacity of a PD gun as average ME is at or near that of .38 standard pressure. Hotter loads such as available from Georgia Arms puts it in 38 +P range.

For those of you owning the 32 H&R do you find it to have a loud muzzle blast. Do you think its about at the 38 level? Maybe its just me, but it has quite a "crack" to it, although I think my 22 Mag. S&W snubbie is even louder.

Actually, I think the .327Mag is the solution to the 9mm/.40S&W snub revolver problem....and it solved it by creating a 6-shot, no-moon-clip snubgun with better ballistics. It's not a .357Mag, but it doesn't need to be....

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